svn commit: r334617 - in head: . etc

[Bryan Drewery]

> On Jun 5, 2018, at 16:43, Brad Davis <brd at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Renato Botelho wrote:
> > On 05/06/18 15:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 12:13:05PM -0600, Brad Davis wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, at 10:46 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > >>> I find it often very useful to do
> > >>> (cd src/etc/rc.d && make install)
> > >>> Same for defaults and several other directories which in fact contains
> > >>> non-editable content.  Is this planned to keep working ?
> > >>
> > >> The short answer is, no.  All rc.d scripts get moved to the src of the program they start.
> > >>
> > >> That said, if there is a big need for this, we can see about options to keep them working.
> > >>
> > >> What are you trying to accomplish when you do this?  Just verify the rc.d scripts match your src tree?
> > >
> > > I avoid mergemaster/etcupdate and whatever else. rc.d and /etc/rc,
> > > /etc/rc.subr /etc/rc.network are not suitable to etc, they are binaries
> > > provided by the project not for the user editing.
> > >
> > > When upgrading the host, esp. on HEAD, i usually refresh scripts by this
> > > procedure and avoid any editing and implied conflict resolution for real
> > > configs.
> > >
> > > Not being able to easily install clean copies of these scripts would
> > > be very inconvenient and time consuming.
> >
> > If I understood what Brad is saying, each rc.d script will be installed
> > by the application it belongs to. So when it's installing SSH it will
> > also install /etc/rc.d/sshd and you will not need to deal with rc.d
> > files on mergemaster anymore.
> >
> > Is it correct, Brad?
> 
> Correct. 
> 

This makes no sense. Many rc scripts, and other config files, have no “owner” outside of etc/...

Please don’t kill etc/Makefile. This is going to be very painful to deal with downstream.

> 
> Regards,
> Brad Davis